Rizal had his early education in Calamba and Biñan with typical schooling for an ilustrado family at the time, focusing on reading, writing, arithmetic, and religion. His mother was his first teacher, and he later had private tutors before continuing his studies in Biñan at age 9 where he excelled academically above his peers.
Rizal had his early education in Calamba and Biñan with typical schooling for an ilustrado family at the time, focusing on reading, writing, arithmetic, and religion. His mother was his first teacher, and he later had private tutors before continuing his studies in Biñan at age 9 where he excelled academically above his peers.
Rizal had his early education in Calamba and Biñan with typical schooling for an ilustrado family at the time, focusing on reading, writing, arithmetic, and religion. His mother was his first teacher, and he later had private tutors before continuing his studies in Biñan at age 9 where he excelled academically above his peers.
Rizal had his early education in Calamba and Biñan with typical schooling for an ilustrado family at the time, focusing on reading, writing, arithmetic, and religion. His mother was his first teacher, and he later had private tutors before continuing his studies in Biñan at age 9 where he excelled academically above his peers.
Rizal had his early education in Calamba and Biñan
It was a typical schooling that a son of an ilustrado family received during his time, characterized by the four R’s- reading, writing, arithmetic, and religion. Rizal was able to acquire the necessary instruction preparatory for college work in Manila despite the defects of the Spanish system of elementary education. T h e H e r o’s Fir s t T e a c h e r
The first teacher of Rizal was his mother, a
remarkable woman of good character and fine culture. At the age of 3 he learned alphabet and some prayers. Doña Teodora is his tutor she was the who discovered that her son had a talent for poetry. T h e H e r o’s Fir s t T e a c h e r
Accordingly, she encouraged him to write poems. To
lighten the monotony of memorizing the ABC’s and to stimulate her son’s imagination. His parents employed private tutors to give him lessons at home. o Maestro Celestino o Maestro Lucas Padua o Leon Monroy Jose Goes to Biñan and His Performance in Biñan School At the age of seven he traveled with his father for the first time to Manila and thence to Antipolo to fulfill the promise of a pilgrimage made by his mother at the time of his birth. When he was nine years old, his father sent him to Biñan to continue studying Latin, because his first teacher had died. Rizal left Calamba for Biñan and was accompanied by his brother, Paciano in June, 1869. Jose Goes to Biñan and His Performance in Biñan School
Both proceeded to their aunt’s house, where Jose was
to lodge. Paciano brought Jose to the school of Maestro Justiano Aquino Cruz. In academic studies, Jose beat all Biñan boys. He surpassed them all in Spanish, Latin, and other subjects. Some of his older classmates were jealous of his intellectual superiority.